CarGo had been bothered by discomfort in the finger for the past month. It was initially diagnosed as inflammation and he tried to play through it, but his ability to grip a bat become a real issue. The 28-year-old owns an outstanding .877 career OPS. This season his OPS was at a sluggish .756 through 52 games.

Corey Dickerson will serve as the Rockies’ starting left fielder while Gonzalez is on the shelf.

One time, while I was living in Vegas, I was planting come golden barrel cactus and I had a quill go right under my fingernail and break off. The initial burst of pain rocketed all the way up to my shoulder, but I quickly shrugged it off because I’m one of those macho gardener types. It took about a month, but that piece of cactus quill kept migrating under my fingernail until it worked its way back out the top. Fingers are very mysterious.